We have students at both Master and Bachelor level, as well as Doctoral students working within the research groups. In addition, we provide lectures and labs for students from the other departments of the Science Faculty. Courses at the bachelor level are given in either of the two official languages, French or German. Masters courses, and in particular colloquia and research seminars, are given in English. At the postgraduate level we offer a coordinated teaching program in collaboration with the physics departments at other Swiss universities.

Our groups maintain a very active collaborative research program, for example, with the Adolphe Merkle Institut for Nanosciences (AMI), within the Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials (FriMat) and the Light and Matter project (LiMAT) or with the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP) from the University of Bern. We also collaborate with several national and international research institutes such as PSI in Villigen and ESRF in Grenoble, and in several FP7 projects (7th Framework Programme of the European Commission for Future and Emerging Technologies).

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Hot off the press!

September 8, 2017

In a recent article published in PNAS, the group of Frank Scheffold proposes a transport phase diagram that organizes optical transport properties in disordered media with structural correlations. More information on our NCCR webpage.

Hot off the press!

June 9, 2017

The group of Yi-Cheng Zhang published review in prestigious Physics Reports on the problem of ranking nodes in growing complex networks.